linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix false positive for REPEATED

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Message-ID: <0f2bd4e988ce0a75434407a2db584a4e0c6c6280.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:17:10 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <coupons@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix false positive for REPEATED_WORD warning

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 22:29 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Can it be considered that the Hex numbers occur
> mostly in pairs or groups of 8, like "FF" or "FFFFFFFF"?
> 
> I think it might reduce the negative side further.

Maybe.  This already looks for pairs.

Combined with your previous patch,
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/20201017162732.152351-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com/
it seems OK to me.

Try something out and see if it makes a difference.